Joe Biden's boom and bust online campaign

[brooklynite]

Politico

Joe Biden raised $4.6 million online on his first day in the 2020 presidential race, surprising doubters who thought the former vice president couldn’t run a modern campaign. But since then Biden’s online fundraising has tumbled — looking more like flash-in-the-pan opponent Beto O’Rourke than top-tier rivals like Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren.

More than 60 percent of the $13.2 million Biden has raised online came in the first week of his campaign, which launched in late April, according to a POLITICO analysis of data from the Democratic fundraising platform ActBlue. While other top candidates spiked early and then gradually raised more money online as the 2020 campaign has carried on, Biden’s pattern is similar to O’Rourke, who roared into the race with millions raised in his first day but has trickled off since then, watching his standing in the polls erode as the people who flocked to his 2018 Texas Senate campaign stop mashing the “donate” button with every email.

Unlike O’Rourke, Biden has enjoyed a steady stream of high-dollar, in-person events with big donors to bolster his finances, putting him among the top Democratic fundraisers in 2020. But the online totals are a sign that Biden has not built enthusiastic grassroots support for his presidential campaign, despite his lead in the polls.

POLITICO’s day-by-day review of presidential fundraising via ActBlue also shows that the former vice president didn’t generate other types of spikes or breakout moments that other campaigns feasted on during the first half of 2019. That includes well-received debate performances, televised town hall appearances, or even announcing support for impeaching President Donald Trump — all of which drove fundraising for other Democratic campaigns early this year.

[George II]

1. Joe Biden doesn't send out a half dozen emails every day pleading for contributions....

.....of as little as $1.00.

[DownriverDem]

4. For sure

Why don't folks focus on beating trump? Biden can beat trump. trump does not want to run against Biden. What is it folks don't get?

[Peacetrain]

2. In my best Charlie Brown teacher impression

Blah, blah, blah, blah....


Say what..you are saying no one is enthusiastic about VP Biden, but somehow he has been leading the pack even before he got into the race


Blah, blah blah blah....blah blah blah

And he will be 78 if he gets elected

BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH

Never get the vote heh.. must be a shock because he is leading and has been since before he got in the race..

Blah blah blah blah blah....... blah blah..

He did not get what,.. the other campaigns feasted on spikes before he got in.. uh huh.. hmmm yep got it.. damn shame he stays in the lead being that loser you keep describing..

[DarthDem]

3. Never Change, Politico!

Never change. (Gee, it's as though they don't like Biden or something. I wonder whyever not?)

[still_one]

5. Actually Politico is notorious for what I call diversionary Politics. They also love to quote

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unamed sorted

From my perspective they are the National Enquirer of politics

Wouldn’t be surprised if one day they report one of our candidates was abducted by a space alien

[DarthDem]

8. Unarmed Sorted?

Sounds nefarious!

Agreed as to that comparison, which I like, but I also believe that they don't like Biden because he promises to win, or they fear he will. I view them as anti-Democratic party.

[still_one]

10. I hate Apple's auto correct feature- I should just turn the damn thing off- corrected. Thanks

[dalton99a]

9. They are political assassins.

[dalton99a]

7. +1

[emmaverybo]

6. Biden's speech to the nation about Trump's moral failings as an American president should qualify

as a break-out moment, at least on par with his rivals’ minutes long debate turns. Even WaPo had to notice that one and allow for some columnists’ praise.

[flamingdem]

12. Ari Melber going over this story now

Politico writer on his show saying Bernie is on fire and Elizabeth is nipping at his heels.

[OKNancy]

13. Well in that case I just gave him 20 more dollars

Well in that case I just gave him 20 more dollars

[onetexan]

14. "online totals are a sign that Biden has not built enthusiastic grassroots support"

This is a buncha baloney. Biden would not be consistently topping the polls if he did not have grassroots support. 'Nough said.